What initially seemed to be a journalistic scoop of dubious moral propriety now seems to be a case of an Israeli paper being played by the Barack Obama campaign. Maariv, the second most popular newspaper in Israel, was roundly criticized for publishing the note Obama left in the Kotel. But now a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the “private” prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption.At around 5am last Thursday, Obama arrived at the Kotel, or Western Wall, abutting the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple Mount. Accompanied by the Rabbi in charge of the site, Shmuel Rabinovich, he reportedly heard Psalm 122, which contains a prayer for the peace of Jerusalem, touched the wall briefly and then deposited a note of prayer into a crack between the ancient stones, in keeping with the tradition of visitors to the site. On his way out, he was briefly heckled, with one man calling out that “Jerusalem is not for sale” and “Remember what you see here.” Trying to drown out the critics, a few supporters chanted his name.Subsequently, it was reported that a yeshiva student filched the note that Obama placed in the wall and then Maariv published it in the next day’s newspaper.For that “scoop” the paper has come under fire. Yediot Aharonot, the country’s most popular daily, published an article Friday saying it had also obtained the note but decided not to publish it, to respect Obama’s privacy. Other Israeli media outlets initially ignored the story, or picked it up only after the initial publication had triggered a controversy.
“Lord - Protect my family and me,” reads the note.

“Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.”

However, it now appears that Maariv had collaborated with the Obama campaign in getting the “private” prayer, with its “modest” supplicaton to the Lord, out to the public, buffing his Christian credentials and showing his “humility.”

A little more here but you get the gist.
The Obama Hussein campaign engaging in more “symbolism over substance” (thanks, again Rush) campaign.
From the redesign of the presidential seal, to those silly “change” campaign posters, to the staged fan fallouts at his campaign rallies everything about this dude is as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
As I said in a post a few days ago people like my dad, older black people fall for this trifling fraud bullshit. That kind of shit works on people who don’t pay attention to the substance of a political candidate.

Since this is Rush anniversary week here is a clip from his TV show back in the early 90’s showing the king of fake and fraud Bill Clinton. Obama is not even elected but I think he may soon surpass Clinton as the all time fake ass fraud symbolic politician.
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In another example of classic fake as fraud Democrat symbolism was this story of Bill Clinton on Omaha Beach and the “stones on the beach” story. (NYT Source link)

Bill Clinton walked on Omaha Beach, in Normandy, with three veterans of the bloody D-Day battle that had been fought there. The walk had been planned by the President’s media advisers as part of an overall attempt to reshape the President’s image as Commander in Chief, a mantle that had never rested comfortably on his shoulders. The event, staged as carefully as a small movie, was duly noted in the White House press schedule of the day: “6:15 C.E.T. President Clinton visits Omaha Beach with the American veterans of that beach. Note: no remarks are planned during this walk.”

The President and the three men who had fought on the beach walked slowly along, talking in hushed tones among themselves, as a dozen or so photographers and television cameramen walked backward in front of them, recording the scene. After a few minutes, White House aides pulled the veterans off to one side, so that the President could continue his beach walk in Kennedy-esque solitude. At a certain point, where some beach stones had been gathered into a small pile to form a marker, the President stopped, and the photographers took up their positions so that he was nicely framed by the hulks of the old warships in the sea behind him.

The President stood for a moment, staring silently out to sea. Then he knelt down, his knees not quite touching the ground, in a pose that suggested worship. He reached for the pile of stones in front of him and slowly began rearranging them into the shape of a cross. A journalist who was there watching the scene recalls “getting that sick feeling you get sometimes with him, thinking ‘Oh God, please don’t do this.’ “

As the cameras clicked and rolled, the President bowed his head as if to pray. Later, White House aides said the moment of silence had been planned, but that the cross of stones had been entirely the President’s own idea.

His campaign staff placed the rocks there ahead of time, there are no damm rocks on the beach!

It will be interesting what other symbolic crap the Obama camp will come up with next.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at 1:14 pm and is filed under Liberals, Crap Politics, Liberal Fraud, symbolism, Stupid Shit.
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